- Country: Germany
- Style: Technical death metal / Progressive death metal
- Label: Relapse Records
- Release date: 29 March 2011
The first thing you notice is the bass. Jeroen Paul Thesseling isn’t buried under the guitars here, he sits right in the middle of the mix and sings, which is rarer in technical death metal than it should be. V. Santura recorded the band at Woodshed Studio, and his production keeps the drums of Hannes Grossmann tight without turning them into a machine-gun click track.
Steffen Kummerer and Christian Münzner pack “Septuagint” and “Vortex Omnivium” with harmonised leads and sudden left turns, and the Schelling-inspired concept gives the record a loose shape. The problem is the middle stretch: several songs follow the same blueprint of blast, solo, bass interlude, repeat. “Aevum” rescues the ending with some breathing space. Brilliant players, occasionally too polite an album.
Best tracks:
Septuagint
Vortex Omnivium
Celestial Spheres
Aevum
Author’s rating: 8.0/10
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